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Your Lordship with the balm of tranquillity to pour
into his ear.- Cold Bath Fields Prison (Your Lordship
may be pleased to observe to him) is up already:
it is up high in favour: and - what is beyond
every thing, and without which every thing else would
be as nothing - there is no Gospel - propagating Lord-
no friend of the "great person's" to steal up the back
staircase and whisper in his ear -up or not up
the spot is too near me - it must not be made
use of.-

Let him come forward then with his offer.
(- I mean the worthy Magistrate-) It is a yet but
a hypothetical one: - let him convert it inot a categorical
one: accepted or not by the Country, he has
nothing to fear from great persons, so long as he
can keep himself from "flattery". As to the £400
a Year Your Lordship and he together will be able
to find a use for it: - it will sever within a
trifle for a place of Inspector of Prisons; to smell
at the same nosegay with the Inspector of Hulks
who will come on the carpet presently: - it will
serve for otium cum dignitate to the declared
protege of the worthy Magistrates, I mean the so
well protected Governor: a personage who, if he does
not do much good to a prison by governing it,
might at any rate not do much harm to it
by inspecting it at a distance.-

Another scrape indeed, it must be confessed,
my Lord, and, at first blush blush at least, a still
more serious one, is that which the worthy Magistrate

seems
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Identifier: | JB/116/632/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	632	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d41 / d42
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38165
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